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Neither of them replied, and when the husband asked them rubbing his hands: "Well, I hope that at least you have had a pleasant walk?" Monsieur d'Apreval replied: "A delightful walk, I assure you; perfectly delightful." My friend Ledantec and I were twenty-five and we had come to London for the first time in our lives.
The fact was he had had a hint from his superiors to treat the Englishman gently. "The truth must come out now," Hyde had said, when asked if he remembered the circumstances of his former arrest. "You have the real culprit in custody." "This Ledantec, I suppose?" asked the judge. "It was he who struck the blow; I saw him with my own eyes, as I told you years ago.
"Describe him to me," asked Ledantec, to try Hyde. Hyde had seen Joe more than once in his rides through the hut-town, and his answer was perfectly satisfactory. "Did he send any message?" "Just what I have told you. I was to let you know of his arrest and of the danger you would run." Ledantec was deceived by the straightforward and unhesitating way in which Hyde told his story. "It may be so.
I even thought it particularly praiseworthy, since, after all, the poor creature thus carried out her calling conscientiously, which was to seduce us. For there was no possible doubt about the matter, that this grandmother was nothing more nor less than a prostitute. And then, drunk! Horribly drunk, much more drunk than Ledantec and I were, for we really could manage to say: "Oh!
"Then I can wait events calmly and without fear." Presently, when Hyde had been removed, Ledantec was introduced, and was received with the brutal harshness which was the judge's habitual manner towards prisoners. "Your name, profession, address?" he asked abruptly. "Silas Hobson, an English journalist, residing in Duke Street, St. James's, London." "It is false!
It was little likely that the Central prison to which she was consigned in perpetual "reclusion" would ever surrender its prey. He heard, too, with lively satisfaction, the sentence of his old foe, Ledantec, to hard labour at the galleys for twenty years.
When I tell you this, and considering their dull look beneath the hair of an octogenarian, it is not surprising that Ledantec and I said in a low voice at the sight of this woman, who was evidently young: "Oh! poor, poor old woman!" Her great age was further accentuated by the terrible poverty that was revealed by her dress.
"Do you know, then, where she is?" interrupted Gascoigne, with so much eagerness that it was plain he had taken his wife's defection greatly to heart. "Why has she left me? With whom? I have always suspected that villain Ledantec; he is an arch scoundrel, a very devil!" "The reasons for your wife's disappearance are sufficiently explained by this letter."
Ledantec repeated, leaving go of me, and at that time I paid attention to what he said, and, after throwing some small change onto the floor, I followed him, to make him understand, when he should be quite sober, that he saw before him a poor Albino prostitute, who had several brothers and sisters.
You cannot deceive me; it would be far better to make a clean breast of it at once." "I have already told you all I know. I repeat, I saw Ledantec strike the blow." "Psha! this is puerile. I will be frank with you. We have the fullest and strongest evidence of your guilt why, then, will you not confess it?" "I have nothing to confess; I am perfectly innocent.
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